New APS Rising Stars
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The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS Members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Drawing its name from an Observer editorial series that featured exemplars of the exciting work being done by the field’s newest researchers, this designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.
The following are the most recent members to be named APS Rising Stars in February of 2025:
- Mohammad Atari, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Flavio Azevedo, Utrecht University
- Deon Benton, Vanderbilt University
- R. Thora Bjornsdottir, University of Stirling
- Beata Bothe, Université of Montréal
- Meagan Brem, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Janina Buehler, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
- Federica Bulgarelli, The State University of New York at Buffalo
- Taylor Burke, Harvard Medical School
- Nicholas Buttrick, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lucius Caviola, University of Oxford
- Tessa Charlesworth, Northwestern University
- Nathan Cheek, University of Maryland
- Kara Christensen Pacella, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Alexandra Clark, The University of Texas at Austin
- Cory Cobb, Texas A&M College Station
- Thomas Costello, American University
- Alice Coyne, American University
- Jo Cutler, University of Birmingham
- Audrey-Ann Deneault, Université de Montréal
- Tobias Ebert, University of St. Gallen
- Lydia Emery, University of Chicago
- Cope Feurer, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Lauren Forrest, University of Oregon
- Katharina Förster, Technische Universität -Dresden
- Arianna Gard, University of Maryland
- Friedrich Götz, University of British Columbia
- Tina Gupta, University of Pittsburgh
- Louis Hickman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Kevin Hoff, Michigan State University
- Joshua Jackson, University of Chicago
- Jing Liu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Shari Liu, Johns Hopkins University
- David March, Florida State University
- Julia Marshall, Brown University
- David Melnikoff, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Andras Molnar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- David Newman, Loma Linda University
- Joshua Oltmanns, Washington University in St. Louis
- Christopher Petsko, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Kristie Poole, McMaster University
- David Preece, Stanford University
- Divyangana Rakesh, King’s College London
- Megan Rogers, Texas State University
- Radosław Rogoza, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw
- Liron Rozenkrantz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Jonathan Schaefer, Vanderbilt University
- Laura Sels, Ghent University
- Rosie Shrout, Purdue University
- Moriah Sokolowski, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Roseanna Sommers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Sophia Vinci-Booher, Vanderbilt University
- Colin Vize, University of Pittsburgh
- Madalina Vlasceanu, Stanford University
- Hannah Volpert-Esmond, University of Texas at El Paso
- Emily Willroth, Washington University in St. Louis
- Michael Kin Chung Yeung, The Education University of Hong Kong
- Sami Yousif, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Bo Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
